The annual pelvic exam has been routinely performed on American women for decades. Controversy over the effectiveness vs. the “embarrassment factor” has recently taken center stage. Dr. Kirtly Jones ...

Pelvic exams are conducted on an examination table, often with the woman’s feet in stirrups. Could the routine pelvic exam — for decades a central element of a woman’s annual visit to her doctor — ...

Young women are far less likely now to get an annual pelvic exam than they were in decades past, a new report finds. In 1988, about 42 percent of those aged 15 to 20 got the standard gynecologic exam, ...

WATCH: 100+ women are accusing a former Brigham & Women’s doctor of sexual assault. Reporter Felice Freyer explains what patients can look out for. Most women receive regular pelvic and breast exams ...

• Screening pelvic examination should not be performed in asymptomatic, nonpregnant women. • Possible harms include fear, anxiety, deterring some women from getting medical care, and false-positive ...

Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) say there is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms for the use of pelvic examinations to detect ...

Medscape: You began by emphasizing the external part of the examination. If clinicians are no longer doing the pelvic exam, will they still be performing that part of the examination? Dr. Levy: I ...

(HealthDay)—Young women are far less likely now to get an annual pelvic exam than they were in decades past, a new report finds. In 1988, about 42% of those aged 15 to 20 got the standard gynecologic ...

There are many common practices in medicine that are completely useless. For example, it was once common for patients to get a chest X-ray as part of their yearly physical. Someone finally questioned ...

Ask any woman how she feels about getting an annual pelvic exam and she may involuntarily pull her knees together and cringe. It's not exactly something she looks forward to. With a growing number of ...